Workshops

10.00am - 5.00pm

Rural Research Day – RNZCGP rural GP chapter

The "Rural Research Day" has been endorsed by The Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners (RNZCGP) and has been approved for up to 5.67 CME credits for the General Practice Educational Programme (GPEP) and Continuing Professional Development (CPD) purposes.

We are excited to announce that there will be a $500 prize for the best registrar presentation and two $250 prizes for runners up.

To take a look at the speakers presentations last year, and earn yourselves some CME points click here.

Cost: $25 for students and registrars, $85 for everyone else, includes catering

Location: Princes Ballroom C

10.00am - 12.00pm

Bayer Contraception workshopFacilitated by Dr Orna McGinn

Orna is a UK trained GP with qualifications in Sexual and Reproductive Health and Obstetrics and Gynaecology. She works part time as a GP in East Auckland and also teaches on the Diploma of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the University of Auckland.

New Zealand currently has the highest rate of teenage pregnancy in the OECD, having overtaken the USA in recent years. Despite this, no formal training exists in this country to equip practitioners with the skills they need to discuss and provide the most effective contraception to their patients, LARC (long acting reversible contraception).

In this workshop we will discuss the current barriers to accessing contraception in New Zealand, and the advantages of LARC . Model arms and pelvises will be provided and each participant will be shown insertion and removal techniques for Jadelle, Mirena and the copper IUD.

Before attending the workshop it is expected that each participant will have completed the Goodfellow Unit learning modules on Jadelle and IUCD as background reading. https://www.goodfellowunit.org

Cost: $30, includes morning tea
Location: Princes Ballroom B

10.00am - 12.30pm

Understanding the biomechanics and physical demands of one of the toughest rural industries – shearing Facilitated by Laura Hancock, Rural Works

Sheep farming has been crucial in the development of the New Zealand economy.

Previous studies have focused on the ergonomics and physical demands of shearing and confirm that it is one of the most physically demanding occupations in the world today (Culvenor et al., 1997; Harvey et al., 2002; Stuart et al). The muscular endurance and stamina needed for a full eight or nine hour day shearing in a woolshed is quite astounding, with continuous muscular and neural strain put upon the body in potentially stressful biomechanical positions.

This informative 2.5 hour workshop is one of a kind, with an emphasis on upskilling rural health professionals to better help their patients involved with tough physical rural industries. Attendees are encouraged to explore and experience the movement concepts during the workshop.

Photographic and video footage is used to break down the shearing process into individual blows to discuss the impact upon the body, both to the muscular and the neural system, of the varying positions and movements undertaken by shearers.

Understanding of movement patterns and subsequent strain upon the body helps guide practitioners to be able to educate and advise shearers on how they may manage to maintain and improve the condition of the soft tissues of the body, prevent injuries, maintain mobility and range of motion and improve posture, as well as helping communication and connection with patients who work within the shearing industry.

Cost: $30, includes morning tea
Location: Gallery room one

2.00pm - 4.00pm

Te Ao Maori and why protocols exist
Facilitated by Hemaima Tait

Health inequities are a 'difference in health that are unnecessary, avoidable, unfair and unjust and amenable to policy change / intervention.' Maori experience the worst health outcomes of Northland's population and these are in effect a result of the health inequities in our system.

Learn about how to work implementation and change in system support and how to work positively with those impacted by health inequities.

Cost: $30, includes afternoon teaLocation: Gallery room one

2.00pm - 4.00pm

FujiFilm Sonosite ultrasound training and support workshop

Details to come
Cost: $30, includes afternoon teaLocation: Princes Ballroom BThis workshop is now full

2.00pm - 4.00pm

Nurses Skills workshop
Advanced rural nursing-staying safe amidst the challengesfollowed by
Standing Orders: Staying safe as rural nurses- Back to Basics for practice and PRIMEKate Stark, Nurse Practitioner Gore Health and various other areas in the lower South Island

The qualities of a good rural hospital. A NZ 2017 perspectiveRory Miller,
University of Otago

3.00pm - 3.30pm

Afternoon tea

3.30pm - 4.15pm

Rural health workforceWith rural health professionals increasingly thin on the ground, it's important we all understand proposals to start to turn this situation around. Currently the Ministry of Health and the Tertiary Education Commission are considering two proposals: one from Waikato University for a Rural Medical School and a joint proposal from Auckland and Otago Universities for a national network of Rural Health Schools. Given the significance of these two proposals, representatives from each proposal will participate in a facilitated conversation to outline their proposal and the impact it could have on rural health in New Zealand.

4.15pm - 5.00pm

PRIME Panel discussion
What's been achieved one year on and where to next?Facilitated by Dr Tim Malloy, Chair of the National PRIME Committee
Kate Stark, PRIME practitioner and rural Nurse Practitioner
Buzz Burrell, PRIME provider/practitioner and rural GP
Daniel Ohs, Assistant Director of Operations, St John

5.00pm - 5.15pm

Conference close

5.15pm

NZRGPN AGMPrinces ballroom C

7.00pm - late

Medtech Conference Awards DinnerPrinces Ballroom, Pullman Auckland

Post conference breakfast forums

9.00am - 12.00pm

Network members breakfast forumGallery rooms 1 & 2

10.00am - 12.00pm

Student breakfast forumGallery room 3

Our breakfast forums are a catered event and space is limited. In fairness for others, please only register for a breakfast if you plan to attend and organise your travel accordingly. If you register for a breakfast or any other function session and can no longer attend please let Emma (registration@conference.nz) know so your place can be offered to another delegate.